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  1. 47 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Did you talk to your insurance company about special considerations for students out of state?

    If she registers the car in Colorado, when will your insurance company find out?  Do they routinely check that or only when the insurance plan is renewed?  

    1.  Already talked to the insurance company. 

    2.  They'd probably find out when she had a wreck and we had to file a claim, which they'd then deny paying.

  2. 1 hour ago, slorch said:

    Surprised U-Dub has zero priors, what with the west coast influence and their resources.

     

    Our resources have historically been spent on everything but baseball.  We didn't have a stadium with permanent seating until 2014, IIRC.

    Before that, the "stadium" was a collection of those temporary bleachers that you normally find at shitty high school fields:

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    That's actually the "improved" version from the one that they used when I was there in the 90's.

     

     

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  3. Daughter took her car back to college in Colorado last fall, got a summer internship there, and her TX registration expires in August.  Which means the car needs a TX safety inspection first before we can renew TX registration. 

    The gum in the gears:

    a.  Colorado does not have a reciprocal state inspection with Texas -- they only do emissions.

    b.  She can't stay on our insurance if she registers the car in Colorado.  Putting her on her own insurance would cost significantly more.

     

    So what do we do?

    1.  Have her take a 9-hour road trip to Texline to get it inspected.

    2.  Help?????

     

     

     

  4. And Auburn gave Bruce Pearl a contract extension through 2023.

     

    That's the most Auburn thing ever.  But I guess the AD had to do it, because there were other schools just dying to hire Bruce Pearl right now.

  5. 4 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    Rick Sutcliffe said today that if he were starting a franchise and he could choose any player in baseball to start with it would be Luis Severino, which sounds like something Rick Sutcliffe would say. Just a laughable decision. Sevy is young, and super talented, and might win the Cy Young this year, a year after finishing third; he’s awesome. But your number one pick? Out of everyone available? Sorry, I’ll take any number of position players ahead of the latest young, promising pitcher. 

    Sutcliffe is an assclown blowhard.  Basically an unpolitical Schilling. 

    Quit listening to him, and more importantly, quit posting his idiocy here.

    (Irony: Sutcliffe and Schilling are two of my favorite players ever.)

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    So did I miss something or is there a legit chance that 3 teams will lose both games in their regional from the SEC today? Has that level of choke ever happened before?

    Pretty sure the current level of choke has never happened before.

  7. 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    yeah and when did we remove that rock cliff thing from the outfield?  why is the pitchers mound so low?

    This is the real argument we need to be making!  Bring back the rock cliff!  Once we do that, then we can worry about grass.

  8. Pvillestang's video brought a flashback, and I probably told this on Shaggy, but fuck it...

    I started umpiring baseball in high school.  And I was really good at it because I knew the rule book backwards and forwards, as you might have guessed from all the anal-retentive posts I've made on the MLB thread.  And I was poor, so I was always willing to work any available game, so my supervisor would call me for everything.

    But graduation week, I told my supervisor "DO NOT SCHEDULE ME ON THURSDAY NIGHT.  I have a big party to go to that night."

    So of course he calls me on Wednesday night and tells me he has a Pee Wee game tomorrow (1 game only at 6pm, so I can still make the party!) that he's desperate to staff.  I tell him to call everyone else in town and if no one can take it, call me back.  And he calls me back 20 minutes later, and I grudgingly take the game to do him a favor.

    Pee Wee games always were fucking horrible because most games only last three innings (scheduled for 6 innings) before they bumped into the 2-hour time limit, with the score 23-22 and 5 total hits and 60 walks. 

    That night at the home plate meeting before the game, I told both coaches, "If your batter can reach the pitch, I'm going to call it a strike.  They need to swing the bats tonight."  One coach nodded and grinned.  The other started to argue, and I cut him off and said, "You tell your kids to swing at anything close because I am going to call it a strike."

    We went into the top of the sixth with the score 5-4 after about an hour and 20 minutes and I was so excited about me having a chance to get to the party on time and having a chance to go ugly early. 

    And then the little dude pitching couldn't throw it anywhere near the plate and neither could the next kid and so they walked about 15 in a row and it took about a half hour to play the last inning.  And when the final out was finally recorded, I took off on a full sprint to the parking lot...

    ...Except that I had a whole line of parents from both teams trying to shake my hand and telling me, "That was the best game we've had all season!  Can you please umpire more of our games?"

  9. 2 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    agree to disagree. They will be fine to pitch next week but that doesn't mean their arms are fresh. 

    Look, I don't totally disagree with you. 

    Because of what he did this weekend, I don't think you can expect Travis Moths to throw a 120-pitch game next weekend, but given the format, I don't think you'd try to get that out of him anyways. 

    But if they somehow pull this next game off, I'd expect their game plan next Friday to be for him to throw 6 innings (which he'll be able to do) and then go to their closer if they have a lead. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

    Mississippi burning through arms.

    They just pitched a guy who had thrown 1 inning all season.

    TNTC just handed the ball to a guy with a 12.79 ERA. 

    Both coaches are playing this correctly. 

  11. 2 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    They don't want to spend the coin it takes to maintain real grass.

    Pro stadiums have full-time staffs that do nothing but baby that grass nearly 24/7.  Even a rich athletic department like UT can't really dedicate that many resources to a single facility. Plus I'm sure the environmentalists have a lot of more sway with UT than they have with the RR Express.  Hard for a state public entity like UT to justify the water usage.

    EDIT:  I'm not defending it.  I think baseball should be on grass at every level.  

    You're preaching to the choir, Nate.

    You know who else has a field-turf baseball field?  Wimberley High School.  Softball, too.  It's hilarious to see 6A teams use our fields for playoff games when it rains.

    Our football field is also field-turf, and I'm pretty sure it was the first 3A FT field in the state. 
     

    Both got approved because of the water usage.

     

    But for years and years and years and years, the excuse UT always gave was that hosting the UIL state tournament meant that they couldn't possibly have a grass field.

    I will say that the current DF field-turf field >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old Astroturf field.

     

  12. 11 minutes ago, Loco said:

    burn those arms boys, burn those arms!

    This guy has pitched 1 (ONE) inning all season.

     

    9 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Bringing their ace in to pitch after throwing over 90 pitches over 5 innings on Saturday is the definition of "overextending arms". 

    Good luck having Moths anywhere close to fresh next weekend if Tennessee Tech advances. 

    Tennessee Tech has definitely overextended Roberts and Moths this weekend. They probably don't have a choice, but it's happening. 

    Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of strict pitch counts.

    But when you're 20-21, you can do anything, and you recover sooooooooo quickly.  None of this is going to affect TNTech pitchers next week.  It might do long-term damage, but they'll be fine if they need to pitch next week. 

    That's the horrible dichotomy for college coaches.

    See Graham, Wayne.

  13. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's been turf from the get-go, so 42 years now.  For many years, as with football fields, it was considered "cool" and state of the art, and also a competitive advantage.  The infield was fast as hell in the earlier days and there were some interesting seams between the infield and outfield.

    For many years, UT made the "Grass can't handle the workload in this climate especially with the UIL state games here" excuse.

    And then the Round Rock Express came into existence, and they made a grass field, which took on much more use in a minor league season, and took on half of the UIL games, and somehow everything was fine with their field. 

    So the reason we still have that turf stuff (which is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the faded Astroturf that we had for so many years) is because the people in charge want us to have fake grass.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    Yeah, I lucked on this one as well. My wife new virtually nothing about baseball when we met, As in, I remember explaining what a double play was on one of our dates. Then this weekend, Tocci (Rangers) was in the line up after being the DL, I was wondering why and she reminded me that he was a rule 5 draft so that couldn't send him down tot he minors. 

    I took my wife to a Rangers game on our first date.  She knew Julio Franco's current batting average the night before.

    Her knowledge and interest in baseball has gone to Julio Franco's current batting average.  (OK, # of hits for the math nerds.)

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